Glial Cells Function and Neuron-Glia Crosstalk in Neurological Diseases
A special issue of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular and Translational Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 11815
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microglia; RhoGTPases; synaptic plasticity; neurodegeneration; cytoskeleton; redox balance
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Dear Colleagues,
The realization that glial dysfunction plays a causative role in neurological conditions, including major neurodegenerative disorders such Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson´s disease, multiple sclerosis and others, dramatically changed the way that we look at the brain. From this perspective, neuron-glia communication takes center stage, and elucidating the nature of glial dysfunction and the impairment of neuron-glia crosstalk became an urgent, necessary and timely task. This knowledge will most likely provide us with new fundamental insight into brain function mechanisms that may help in treating brain diseases. This Special Issue of Biomedicines is open to articles, in any format, that provide deeper and novel mechanistic insights into the dysregulation of glial function in different neurologiacal conditions, as well as the elucidation of how glial dysfunction can impair neuronal homeostasis and plasticity in brain diseases.
Dr. Renato Socodato
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- glial cell
- neurodegenerative disorder
- neuron-glia communication
- neuronal homeostasis
- plasticity
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